May 17, 2012

Seabees Construct Joint Ops Center for Exercise Eager Lion 12

Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael Johnston, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 7, Gulf Port, Miss., cuts a piece of lumber with a radial arm saw outside of the Exercise Eager Lion 12 joint operations center on the King Abdullah II Special Operations T...

May 17, 2012

NMCB 5 ?Bees Engage in Virtual Battle Simulation

RADM Mark Handley, Commander, 1NCD, watches NMCB 5 Seabees navigate the recently installed Virtual Battle Simulation (VBS) System at NAS Point Mugu, Calif., during a Command Post Exercise (CPX), April 25. ...

May 16, 2012

Seabee Husband and Navy Wife Re-enlist...3,900 Miles Apart

Husband and wife team, Petty Officer 2nd Class Damien Baisden, 22nd Naval Construction Regiment, Task Force Stethem, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Tatiana Coles, Patrol Squadron 16 (VP-16) re-enlisted together May 1, 2012. Capt.Kathryn Donovan, commodo...

May 16, 2012

Legalman Earns Seabee Combat Warfare Qual

Capt. Kathryn A. Donovan, Commodore, 22nd Naval Construction Regiment (NCR), congratulates Legalman 1st Class Michael Rusinas after earning his Seabee Combat Warfare pin while deployed with the regiment as a Navy Reserve Individual Augmentee, Kandaha...

May 16, 2012

SECNAV "Pins" Two Seabees at Camp Leatherneck

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and YN2 Deron M. Bennett, NMCB 11...

May 16, 2012

Seabee IA Receives Purple Heart in Afghanistan

By BUC Eric Chamberlin, NMCB 40 CMCN?Nicholas Morton, assigned to NMCB 40 and serving in Afghanistan as an Individual Augmentee, receives the Purple Heart medal from command leadership, April 6. Construction Mechanic Constructionman Nich...

May 16, 2012

Seabees Build Women's Clinic in Guatemala

By 2nd Lt. Harold D. Williams, Tennessee Army National Guard Public Affairs A team of 23 Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 23 constructed a women?s medical clinic in the town of El Rancho as part of Beyond the Horizon (BTH) G...

May 16, 2012

CBMU 303, NMCB 25 Build Homes for Navajo families

By BUC Kimberly Gibson, CBMU 303 Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit (CBMU) 303 deployed a task-tailored team of 20 active duty and reserve component Seabees from four permanent detachment sites to Window Rock, Ariz., in support of the Departm...

May 1, 2012

Motorcycle Safety: The Smart Road Starts With You

By Tony Militello, P.E., Safety Program Manager, NAVFAC, and BUCS(SCW/EXW) Jonathan E. Ring, Force Safety Officer, 1NCD, Naval Construction Forces Command It is no surprise that operating a motorcycle introduces a unique set of hazards outside of ...

April 23, 2012

Perspective: The ?State? of Seabees in NSU

By Rear Adm. David M. Boone, CEC, USN Director, Shore Readiness, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Fleet Readiness and Logistics) [caption id="attachment_1554" align="alignleft" width="163" caption="Rear Adm. David M. Boone, CEC, USN"][/caption] ...